HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A 22-year-old woman found dead inside her Cypress Station apartment is being remembered by her mother as a kind, giving person who often helped others.
Authorities identified the woman as Kaitlyn Graves.
Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to the apartment complex at 905 Cypress Station Drive near Hollow Tree Lane around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday for a welfare check.
Sgt. Jason Brown with the sheriff’s office homicide division said family members had contacted the apartment management after they had not been able to reach Graves for several days.
“Deputies came to the location after management made entry into the apartment and discovered a deceased female inside the apartment,” Brown said.
Brown said Graves had suffered “pretty severe trauma” and investigators are treating the case as a homicide.
Investigators said there were no signs of forced entry into the apartment. Brown said detectives are reviewing surveillance video from inside and outside the complex and speaking with neighbors.
Brown said investigators do not have any obvious suspects at this time. He said detectives are still speaking with family members to learn more about who Graves had been in contact with.
Graves’ mother, Laronda Angelo, declined a recorded interview but told KPRC 2 over the phone that her daughter was a kind person who collected water bottles and umbrellas every week to give to people experiencing homelessness.
A neighbor, Rondell Woodson, said he had interacted with Graves at least once before.
“She was out there feeding cats,” Woodson said.
Woodson said he was shocked to learn Graves had been killed.
“Life is short and I guess you gotta watch out for people,” he said.
Woodson said he was in the process of moving out of the complex because of what he described as rising crime in the area.
“It got worse,” Woodson said. “It’s a lot of crimes.”
In February 2025, KPRC 2 reported a shooting in the same area at another apartment complex that left a woman and a man dead.
“I think we need more security over here, because we only got one security, and he got to patrol other complex,” Woodson said.
Woodson said the fact that no suspect has been announced is concerning.
“There’s a lot of eyes, a lot of cameras,” Woodson said.
Anyone with information in Graves’ death is asked to call the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit at 713-274-9100 or contact Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477).